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Welcome to Journey Through Time. I'm Sarah Churchwell. And I'm David Ola Shogger.

And this is the fourth episode in our series on the history of black American GIs in Britain during the Second World War.

Yeah, and we wanted to take a deep dive into a couple of moments in this history to see how things actually played out on the streets of specific places.

And last week we told the story of the Battle of Bamber Bridge.

So as we said about that last time, that was an outbreak of violence in a small village in Lancashire.

But the story we're telling this time is of another violent incident that took place this time in a large city centre.

And we were talking about the story of Bamber Bridge, which is a small village in Lancashire

that maybe it's not well remembered because it is a small village.

This is a story that took place in the centre of Bristol where I live.

And I didn't know it when I first went to Bristol, and I'm sure many people in Bristol

don't

realize that Park Street, arguably the most famous street in the city, was a place in which

African American soldiers were fired upon by members of their own army, that the American army

...